tultican
@tultican.bsky.social
Former ME and school teacher; Public ed champion, for healthcare as a human rite. Blog: http://tultican.com, Cross-post: @tultican@mastodon.social #EudcationMatters
Trump's Education Department Axes Grants for Full-Service Community Schools - Grant cancellations are part of Trump efforts to eradicate DEI. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t... via @janresseger #EducationMatters
Trump’s Education Department Axes Grants for Full-Service Community Schools
The late, great David Berliner was the Regents’ professor emeritus in the psychology of education at Arizona State University, a former president of the American Educational Research Association, a…
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January 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Trump's Education Department Axes Grants for Full-Service Community Schools - Grant cancellations are part of Trump efforts to eradicate DEI. janresseger.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t... via @janresseger #EducationMatters
Venezuela Kidnapping Repercussions: Plunder, Paranoia, Sadism, (Maybe) Putin - Will Congress be roused from its stupor? @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #MoreAmericanWar
Venezuela Kidnapping Repercussions: Plunder, Paranoia, Sadism, (Maybe) Putin
Will Congress be roused from its stupor?
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January 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Venezuela Kidnapping Repercussions: Plunder, Paranoia, Sadism, (Maybe) Putin - Will Congress be roused from its stupor? @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #MoreAmericanWar
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January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Connecticut: The Happy Return of Play-Based Learning! - Pressure be gone and learning accelerates. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/05/c... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Connecticut: The Happy Return of Play-Based Learning!
Elizabeth Huebeck of Education Week reported on an exciting development: the return of play-based learning in Connecticut. Since the passage of No Child Left Behind more than twenty years ago, play…
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January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Connecticut: The Happy Return of Play-Based Learning! - Pressure be gone and learning accelerates. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/05/c... via @dianeravitch #EducationMatters
Jeff Bryant: The Death of Public Schools in Florida? - Damaris Allen claims, “Either we win this fight, or it’s the death of public schools in Florida.” dianeravitch.net/2026/01/05/j... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Jeff Bryant: The Death of Public Schools in Florida?
Jeff Bryant, a veteran education journalist, dissects he plan to destroy public schools. Governor Ron DeSantis and the Legislature has unleashed the for-profit vultures to pick the bonds and funds …
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January 5, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Jeff Bryant: The Death of Public Schools in Florida? - Damaris Allen claims, “Either we win this fight, or it’s the death of public schools in Florida.” dianeravitch.net/2026/01/05/j... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Kevin Bolling: This isn’t school ‘choice.’ It’s public money siphoned off for private education. - Ken Witt, head of the BOCES, described Riverstone as “Colorado’s first public Christian school” during a board meeting last fall. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization
Kevin Bolling: This isn’t school ‘choice.’ It’s public money siphoned off for private education. - Network For Public Education
Writing from Colorado at News from the States, Kevin Bolling explains how “choice” programs are really a money grab for private schools. The Colorado Schools Fund, launched in 2024 with $50 million in...
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January 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Kevin Bolling: This isn’t school ‘choice.’ It’s public money siphoned off for private education. - Ken Witt, head of the BOCES, described Riverstone as “Colorado’s first public Christian school” during a board meeting last fall. networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content... #Privatization
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NPE’s findings in the report make it all the more weird that NPE continues to back charter schools by making a distinction between for-profit and non-profit varieties, which is a distinction for which there is no difference. The latter simply amass fortunes while collecting tax credits for doing so.
Charter school profiteering, theft of public tax dollars, huge management salaries and self-dealing is costing too much for this failed system to continue as is. tultican.com/2025/12/31/c... #Privatization
Charter School Flimflam Documented
By Thomas Ultican 12/31/2025 Charter schooling has a 33-year history. In 1992, the first one opened in Minnesota and it was exactly the kind of school American Federation of Teachers President Al S…
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January 3, 2026 at 2:17 PM
NPE’s findings in the report make it all the more weird that NPE continues to back charter schools by making a distinction between for-profit and non-profit varieties, which is a distinction for which there is no difference. The latter simply amass fortunes while collecting tax credits for doing so.
US Foray into Venezuela Draws World-Wide Condemnation, Sort Of - Another excellent report from Doug Porter. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #War
US Foray into Venezuela Draws World-Wide Condemnation, Sort Of
Cruising the media with Sunday coffee
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January 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM
US Foray into Venezuela Draws World-Wide Condemnation, Sort Of - Another excellent report from Doug Porter. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #War
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
ICYMI: Back To It Edition (1/4) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup; new years edition. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
ICYMI: Back To It Edition (1/4)
Vacation is over and it is time to get back to it, whether your “it” is work or school or extra-legal kidnappings of foreign heads of state.
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January 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
ICYMI: Back To It Edition (1/4) - Peter Greene's weekly education article roundup; new years edition. open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu... #EducationMatters
Checking up on Venezuela Through My 21st Century Newsstand - Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Hope you don’t mind us stealing your oil. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Checking up on Venezuela Through My 21st Century Newsstand
…meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Hope you don’t mind us stealing your oil…
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January 3, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Checking up on Venezuela Through My 21st Century Newsstand - Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Hope you don’t mind us stealing your oil. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
January 3, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Is The 'Illustrative Math' Curriculum Working? - Gary share an actual math education curriculum issue. garyrubinstein.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/i... via @garyrubinstein #EducationMatters
Is The ‘Illustrative Math’ Curriculum Working?
One of the initiatives of former (and disgraced) Mayor Adams and of the former (and disgraced) Chancellor Banks was a math plan called ‘NYC Solves.’ As part of this plan, all high schoo…
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January 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Is The 'Illustrative Math' Curriculum Working? - Gary share an actual math education curriculum issue. garyrubinstein.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/i... via @garyrubinstein #EducationMatters
In Their Own Words: The New Orleans Community Wants Their Direct-run, Leah Chase School. - This is the only public school in New Orleans and the school board want to close it. deutsch29.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/i... #Privatization
In Their Own Words: The New Orleans Community Wants Their Direct-run, Leah Chase School.
The Leah Chase School (TLC) is the only Orleans Parish public school directly run by NOLA Public Schools under the direction of the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB). From a 2024 press release: Ab…
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January 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
In Their Own Words: The New Orleans Community Wants Their Direct-run, Leah Chase School. - This is the only public school in New Orleans and the school board want to close it. deutsch29.wordpress.com/2026/01/02/i... #Privatization
Charter school profiteering, theft of public tax dollars, huge management salaries and self-dealing is costing too much for this failed system to continue as is. tultican.com/2025/12/31/c... #Privatization
Charter School Flimflam Documented
By Thomas Ultican 12/31/2025 Charter schooling has a 33-year history. In 1992, the first one opened in Minnesota and it was exactly the kind of school American Federation of Teachers President Al S…
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January 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Charter school profiteering, theft of public tax dollars, huge management salaries and self-dealing is costing too much for this failed system to continue as is. tultican.com/2025/12/31/c... #Privatization
Wanted! Presidents/Leaders Who Protect ALL Children! - In America the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has been dismantled by the U.S. ED. go.shr.lc/4pkYQhi via @shareaholic #SickPolitics
Wanted! Presidents/Leaders Who Protect ALL Children! - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. ~James Baldwin A l...
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January 2, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Wanted! Presidents/Leaders Who Protect ALL Children! - In America the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has been dismantled by the U.S. ED. go.shr.lc/4pkYQhi via @shareaholic #SickPolitics
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January 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Time for 21st Century Enlightened Reconstruction - The weekly protests and gatherings throughout the county are giving proof through the chaos that the spirit of democracy lives. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
Time for 21st Century Enlightened Reconstruction
We are where we are in this country because we didn’t finish the job last time.
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January 2, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Time for 21st Century Enlightened Reconstruction - The weekly protests and gatherings throughout the county are giving proof through the chaos that the spirit of democracy lives. @dougporter506 open.substack.com/pub/dougport... #SickPolitics
North Carolina: A Charter School Goes Bankrupt - Another day, another charter school scandal. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/02/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
North Carolina: A Charter School Goes Bankrupt
Parents enrolled their children in a new charter school in North Carolina that offered great promise. But the charter school was deeply entangled with for-profit entities whose first priority was p…
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January 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
North Carolina: A Charter School Goes Bankrupt - Another day, another charter school scandal. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/02/n... via @dianeravitch #Privatization
Jason Garcia: Florida May Enact a Bounty Hunter Law to Reduce Abortions - A Republican attach on women's rights. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/02/j... via @dianeravitch #women
Jason Garcia: Florida May Enact a Bounty Hunter Law to Reduce Abortions
Jason Garcia, a veteran investigative reporter in Florida, reports on the ongoing scandals in the Sunshine State. In this post, he describes a new law that would offer generous bounties to anyone w…
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January 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Jason Garcia: Florida May Enact a Bounty Hunter Law to Reduce Abortions - A Republican attach on women's rights. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/02/j... via @dianeravitch #women
January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Ann Telnaes: What Happened After I Quit The Washington Post - It is a story of an immigrant being triumphant. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/02/a... via @dianeravitch #censorship
Ann Telnaes: What Happened After I Quit The Washington Post
One year ago, Ann Telnaes quit her job at The Washington Post. Her editor refused to print a cartoon she had drawn showing tech billionaires bowing at Trump’s feet. One of them was Jeff Bezos…
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January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Ann Telnaes: What Happened After I Quit The Washington Post - It is a story of an immigrant being triumphant. dianeravitch.net/2026/01/02/a... via @dianeravitch #censorship
#DonCoryell and his amazing junco transfers.
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
#DonCoryell and his amazing junco transfers.